The game

Historia is a Civilization game for 1-6 players. It's easy to learn and to play, and lasts about 25 minutes per player. The main game mechanism is based on Simultaneous Action Selection and this reduces downtimes. The game ends with the Modern Era and points gained decides the winner. There is also a variant with A.I. to play solo or to add players to the normal games. Historia will be made in multilanguage versions with English, Italian, French, German rules.

How do you play Historia?

A set of action cards is available to the players to guide their Civilization. Each card has a powerful effect. Used action cards form a discard queue from where they are taken back into players' hand when the Revolution card is played. Players have to find the right moment to play an action card and the best order in which to play them. Advanced actions become available when the player's Civilization advances in technology.
The Civilization strength is represented by power cubes, which are spent and recovered during the player turn. There are also Leaders, Advisors, and Wonders. Leaders give objectives to score additional victory points. Advisors allow special powers and must be discarded after use. Wonders can be used once per turn and give a variety of bonuses.

If you want to know more about the game, you can download the beta rulebook!

Who can play Historia?

Historia is a game for skilled players. It is a typical game easy to learn, but difficult to master. Each player must find his own way to archive victory!
The game flows smoothly, even with 5 players and there is few times when players are waiting.

The aim of this project

Our aim is simple: we want to produce this game with the best quality as possible. The common "publishing way" doesn't allow us to put all our ideas in the game box or the final cost would be too high. So, join this project and tell to your friends to join in. This way we will make a great game, full of variants and components!

How the game will be realized?

Giochix has produced 25 games in 7 years of activity, if you like to see them go to www.giochix.it.
These games have been printed in Europe by Cartamundi, Ludofact, or Planetgames. All these printing companies specialize on game production and are well known for the quality of their production. Historia will be produced in the same way, with the same quality and care for details, by an European printing Company, probably one of the three above.

The game components

Including unlocked stretch-goals, the base box will include:

- game board (A2)
- rulebook
- 180 cards 56 x 87 mm: 60 Action cards, 18 Leader cards, 48 Wonder cards, 35 Advisor cards (Romans, Germans, French, North-Americans, Egyptians, Chinese, Spanish), 7 A.I. cards, 12 Event cards.
- 1 turn marker, 1 era marker, 6 Development discs, 6 turn order tokens, 6 point markers, 54 Power cubes and 16 territory tiles.
- 6 player reference sheets.

Note: It is possible that some pieces will be changed.

The rewards

Choose your Historia pack!

Stone Pack 44 euro	Includes the base game and the exclusive expansion The Golden Eras: there are 14 tiles which allow to the Civilization to speed up his growth, but they work only for a short period. This expansion will never be available in retail: will be available only joining this project.
Bronze Pack 49 euro	Includes the Stone Pack and the expansion Civilization Goals will be added to the game: there are 16 tiles which offer special bonus to the first Civilization which reach it.
Iron Pack 54 euro	Includes the Bronze Pack and the expansion The Ways of Command. This expansion consists of 7 tiles, one for each Civilization, which allow the player to modify his Actions.
Silver Pack 59 euro	Includes the Iron Pack, you will receive an additional rulebook signed by the game designer, and your name will be printed in the rulebook as a sponsor.
Gold Pack 125 euro	Includes the Silver Pack and you can choose to be part of the game yourself. Your picture will then be used to draw a character (Leader or Advisor)! To stay in historical context you will be drawn in historical clothes. And we reserve the right to change haircuts and to refuse pictures, e.g. such of known celebrities. Photos must be sent as soon as possible and within the 20 July 2014.
Platinum Pack 99 euro	x2 Iron Packs for a discounted price.

The Stretch goals

More people will join the project, more things will be in the game box! 

Addons

They are available only to users which already ordered a reward or are ordering a reward. In both cases, if you want to add an addon to your order simply click it to add it to the cart.

These addons are strictly related to the Historia project:

Matrix Markers: are 6 plastic markers hand casted. You can use them on the Development Matrix on the board on substitution of the box wooden disks. There is one for each Civilization, on the Civ color, with the Civ symbol engraved. Note: these markers are available in limited quantity.

Card Set: an Historia additional card set for who wants a backup.

Also on Kickstarter and Spieleschmiede?

This project is available on three crowdfunding platforms at the same time: Giochistarter (Italy), Spieleschmiede (Germany), and Kickstarter (USA). To define the total amount collected and the relative Stretch goals activated, you have to consider the sum of the amount reached by the 3 websites.
This sum is automatically calculated on this website: in the upper left corners you see the total number of participants and the sum collected in all three websites. 

Which edition?

Historia game is language independent (board, cards and other components). The rulebook will be in multilingual edition (Italian, English, German, French). All participants will receive this version.

Payments

It's possible to pay with credit cards (Paypal) or with bank wire transfer. Payments must be made within 5 days from the order date.

Shipping costs

There are no shipping costs to Italy, Svizzera, USA, Canada, Japan, Corea, Cina and Israel. For other Countries you have to check the prices on the table below or, if your Country is not listed, on the  "Shipping Options" page, which is shown when you click "Go to Shipping Options" on the cart.

Games will be shipped from Italy with Economy Mail service. This shipping solution DOES NOT offer insurance. From past experience we already know that the statistics of lost items is VERY small. However, if you require insurance for your order, you have to choose "Insured" option in the "Shipping Options" page and this cost additional 5 euro.

If you want to receive your item by fast way and with tracking service, you have to choose the Courier option: this option cost depends by the destination Country. It's also possible to pick up the game for free on Essen Fair at Giochix Stand.

Choose the option your prefer on "Shipping Options" page!

When the game will be shipped?

Historia will be launched at the next Essen fair (Germany, 16 October 2014).
You can pick up your order directly at the Essen Fair, or at the Lucca Comics&Games Fair, or in Rome at our Pick Point, or receive it at your home. In the "Shipping Options" page you can choose the option you prefer. 

We will do everything in our power to ship your orders sooner than the 16 October 2014. However, as there is always the chance of the production process getting delayed for various reasons, we assure that in the worst case shipments will be made 5-10 days after the Essen Fair ends.

Who is the game designer?

The designer is Marco Pranzo, 39 years old, Informatic Engineer. Historia is his second game after Upon a Salty Ocean, published by Giochix in 2011. 

Which kind of games do you like it? I love German/Euro games which show the theme strongly in their mechanics. Anyway, I play every time I can to more games I can as possible. 

Where did you get the idea? I played a lot of the Civilization computer game! More recently, I read some books about Human civilization, like Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by J. Diamond. I suggest you all to read it, if you like the theme. 

I made the first Historia game drafts on 2008, but I completed the first game version only on 2010. In the following years I developed it a lot, until the 2012 when Giochix took it. I spent the last year to check and refine rules. 

How the game evolved? The game has been changed many times. I tried different solutions and possibilities in these years. 
The idea to use Action cards and Power cubes has been there from the beginning. 

The most important change I made in the first years is to move the game from "all players manage a Civilization and influence other Civilizations" to a more classic structure "any player manages his Civilization": the result was much more clear and linear, without removing or reducing the player interaction on the game. 
In the beginning, the Action card was played with some Territory cards and Power cubes was moved through 3 status pools. There was also another level to show the speed of cube recover. I simplified this and now we have only two cube status and a Territory map. 
Near the end, I added the variants, fixed the Advisor mechanics, and removed Diseases. 

Which is the more original aspect of Historia? The game experience. I was looking for an epic game, but fast and with little downtime. I tried to create a game with a high strategy level, but where the players manage their Civilization using a single resource: the Power cubes. This frees the players from spending time on the micro-management of their Civilization and lets them to think about their global strategy. I think I have done it, as the game lasts only 25 minutes per player. 

Another important aspect of Historia is that player interactions are not destructive. In other games, the wars directly damage the opponent and in some cases put them out of the game. I preferred to use a different mechanic to avoid excessive penalties of non-military players and I tried to balance territory extension with knowledge advancements. 

 
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